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What happened at the NRA leadership forum this weekend?

John Fea   |  April 17, 2023

We have a serious gun violence problem in the United States. While the National Rifle Association was meeting in Indianapolis, there were multiple-death shootings in Dadeville, Alabama; Louisville, Kentucky; Harrisonburg, Virginia; Honolulu, Hawaii; Spring, Texas; Orlando, Florida; Ahoskie, North Carolina;...

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The Author’s Corner with Travis A. Rountree

Rachel Petroziello   |  April 13, 2023

Travis A. Rountree is Assistant Professor of English at Western Carolina University. This interview is based on his new book, Hillsville Remembered: Public Memory, Historical Silence, and Appalachia’s Most Notorious Shoot-Out  (University Press of Kentucky, 2023). JF: What led you...

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The Author’s Corner with Carl T. Bogus

Rachel Petroziello   |  March 30, 2023

Carl T. Bogus is Professor of Law Emeritus at Roger Williams University. This interview is based on his new book, Madison’s Militia: The Hidden History of the Second Amendment (Oxford University Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write Madison’s...

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Addendum to roundup of coverage on guns and gun control: Timothy Larsen’s essay from 2021

Nadya Williams and Timothy Larsen   |  March 29, 2023

Earlier today, I ran a roundup of all Current, Arena, and Way of Improvement Leads Home coverage on guns and gun control since May 2022. But I want to add here one more resource. In August 2021, Current Contributing Editor...

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Guns and mass shootings coverage roundup since May 2022: Current, Arena, and Way of Improvement Leads Home

Nadya Williams   |  March 29, 2023

In late May 2022, less than a year ago, John Fea posted this roundup of coverage on guns and gun control on his blog. This week unfortunately seems to be an appropriate time to add to this list. Below are...

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Ideas in progress: Joseph P. Slaughter on Christianity and gun culture

Joseph P. Slaughter   |  March 22, 2023

Joseph P. Slaughter is Assistant Professor of the Practice in Religion and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Guns and Society at Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut). The Arena caught up with him to pose some questions… What...

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What’s the deal with those AR-15 lapel pins that GOP members of Congress are wearing?

John Fea   |  February 7, 2023

Will Bunch explains at The Philadelphia Inquirer. A taste: The sight in recent days of Santos and several of his Republican colleagues parading through the hallowed halls of the U.S. Capitol with a mini-celebration of a killing machine that serves...

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Boyhood and guns

John Fea   |  October 25, 2022

Over at JSTOR Daily, Rachael Kay Albers asks “how marketing made guns a fundamental element of contemporary boyhood.” She calls attention to the scholarly work of Charles-Edward Anderson, Anne G. Kimball, Sarah L. Olson, Jay Mechling, Wendy Varney, and Garen...

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Could the battle over abortion in the states result in another “Bleeding Kansas?”

John Fea   |  June 28, 2022

Michael Waldman writes about the recent Supreme Court gun ruling: The Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday striking down a New York gun law isn’t just the most significant ruling on the Second Amendment in a dozen years — it may be the...

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Senate passes bipartisan gun bill

John Fea   |  June 24, 2022

Here is NBC News: The Senate on Thursday night passed the most sweeping gun bill designed to prevent gun violence in decades, a major victory for advocates and a rare defeat for the National Rifle Association. The vote was 65 to 33, with all...

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The GOP is in a dark place right now

John Fea   |  June 21, 2022

This letter was sent to Adam Kinzinger’s home. He is a veteran and a GOP member of the House January 6th Select Committee. The letter was addressed to his wife: This is not the first time Kinzinger has released a...

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Ohio governor Mike DeWine wants guns in classrooms

John Fea   |  June 14, 2022

DeWine will probably sign a bill that will allow teachers to carry weapons in their classrooms after 24 hours of training. Here is NPR on Ohio House Bill 99: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is poised to sign a bill on...

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Senators agree on bipartisan gun safety

John Fea   |  June 12, 2022

A step in the right direction. Here is a Politico: A group of 20 senators struck a bipartisan gun safety framework on Sunday, marking a significant breakthrough in Congress’ attempts to address recent back-to-back mass shootings. In a Sunday morning...

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Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey on guns

John Fea   |  June 9, 2022

Over at The Washington Post, the Pennsylvania senator writes about how he changed his mind about guns after Sandy Hook. Here is a taste: I’m a U.S. senator who has done something rare in today’s politics: I’ve changed my position...

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Former Texas GOP congressman Will Hurd: “I want more than thoughts and prayers”

John Fea   |  June 7, 2022

Hurd represented Uvalde, Texas from 2014-2021. Here is a taste of his piece at The New York Times: We are not helpless, and if the people we elect to address our country’s tough challenges think nothing can or should be...

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Gerson: The GOP spin on guns is “wrong–morally and legally”

John Fea   |  June 7, 2022

Here is Michael Gerson’s recent Washington Post column: Is the slaughter of innocents the unavoidable price of freedom? A significant group of Americans believe it is. In a recent CBS-YouGov poll, 44 percent of Republicans agreed that mass shootings are...

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There were twelve people killed in mass shootings this weekend

John Fea   |  June 6, 2022

Here is Dennis Romero of NBC News: The first weekend of June marked a greater number of mass shooting deaths in the United States than the previous three-day weekend, which ended with Memorial Day. The tally for weekend violence through...

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At least Marjorie Taylor Greene believes Christian nationalism exists

John Fea   |  June 3, 2022

She makes no bones about it. She is a Christian nationalist. Watch: It is worth noting that this is a different rhetorical strategy from the one employed by Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano. Here is a taste of Eliza Griswold’s...

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Mastriano compares gun control to Nazism

John Fea   |  June 3, 2022

He is a “historian with a doctor in history.” No historian worth his salt would make such a sloppy and manipulative comparison. Watch: Mastriano’s claim here has been widely debunked and/or problematized. Also here. Also here. Get up to speed...

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A short history of the National Rifle Association

John Fea   |  June 1, 2022

Robert Spitzer, a scholar of U.S. gun policy and the NRA, divides the history of the organization into three phases: Phase One: At first the group was mainly concerned with marksmanship. It later played a relatively constructive role regarding safety-minded gun...

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